The Valiants secured a point that they will consider lucky when Tom Pope levelled from the spot four minutes from time after Omar Sowunmi was adjudged to have fouled Dave Worrall in the box.

Yeovil’s players protested the decision but were unable to change the referee’s mind as they go home with a single point.

Way criticised the decision of the officials to award the penalty and felt that they were too easily swayed by a volatile home crowd at Vale Park.

He said: “I’ve watched it back again and it was never a penalty.

“I was speaking to the fourth official throughout the game and I just said ‘look, don’t let the crowd dictate your decision making’ and I felt he did on that situation.

“Omar gets a touch of the ball. You can see it, he moves away from Worrall and the direction of the ball changes and they’re always going to get them at places like this, and the technical area, with it being the crowd, sometimes you’ve got to be stronger than the officials were at times.